(n.) A credence table; -- so called by the Eastern or Greek Church.
(n.) See Prosthesis.
Example Sentences:
(1) Mitral valve replacement with the Smeloff-Cutter (S-C) prothesis was performed in 154 patients between September, 1965, and January, 1970.
(2) It is presented the experience in the first 60 patients with duramater's prothesis.
(3) Then anteromedial, posteromedial and intermedial fibers were replaced by an artificial ligament made from Aramid (one to three bundle prothesis) and length changes of the remaining ligaments investigated.
(4) The prothesis is in two parts, each forming a segment of a right circular cylinder with a single axis of rotation.
(5) The prothesis, implanted for 20 months, was patent and was completely healed over 32% of the flow surface--that is, full wall fibrous tissue encapsulation of the graft had occurred, and 32% of the flow surface was endothelialized.
(6) The TI was left untreated in 84, corrected by semi-circular annuloplasty in 39, and corrected by a prothesis in 28, by a Carpentier ring in 6, and by Kay's plasty in 2.
(7) In the triturating area the verticality of the interalveolar axis is necessary for the stability of the cusp-fossa relationship in centric occlusion and for the stability of the prothesis during mastication.
(8) The magnets present several advantages tied to the conservation of the roots as the maintenance of the proprioception, the conservation of the socket bone, the strengthening of the remaining teeth and the psychological comfort for the patient, others tied to the technique itself as the simplicity of realization, the easiness of insertion and removal of the prothesis and the absence of wear.
(9) In extremely dysplastic hips the implantation of Judet's prothesis is rather simple, following the described technique.
(10) A further patient who sat on a hard object developed a lesion of the prothesis with resulting incontinence.
(11) Our results, as corroborated by the oesophagograms and the post-operative weight gain, showed that this prothesis functioned satisfactorily for up to 6 weeks observation period.
(12) 2 Total replacement of the femur with hip and knee arthroplasty using Dr Delepine massive growth prothesis.
(13) Mitral valve repair by means of the Carpentier ring was done once, valve replacement once (Starr-Edwards prothesis).
(14) Additional 5 patients were reoperated because of an infected valve prothesis.
(15) The subcutaneous mastectomy with implantation of prothesis is performed today in cases of fibrocystic diseases with atypical epithelial proliferations, in cases with recurrend fibrocystic disease, with non-invasive ductal carcinoma and lobular carcinoma in situ.
(16) The Authors report their experience on 50 patients suffering from inguinal hernia and treated with a plastic surgery operation preceded by subfascial introduction of a Silastic-Dacron prothesis.
(17) In the present study we report on the surgical replacement of the thoracic portion of oesophageal muscularis by a synthetic carbon fibre (CF) prothesis in a rabbit model.
(18) The patients use prothesis with the support on the end of the stump, and walk without the walking-stick.
(19) Prosthetic loosening and stem fractures have been the most frequently encountered complications of knee arthroplasties using the Guepar Hinged prothesis.
(20) The prothesis has been applied both as femoro-popliteal bypass graft and as arteriovenous shunt for hemodialysis in patients suffering from chronic renal failure.
Thesis
Definition:
(n.) A position or proposition which a person advances and offers to maintain, or which is actually maintained by argument.
(n.) Hence, an essay or dissertation written upon specific or definite theme; especially, an essay presented by a candidate for a diploma or degree.
(n.) An affirmation, or distinction from a supposition or hypothesis.
(n.) The accented part of the measure, expressed by the downward beat; -- the opposite of arsis.
(n.) The depression of the voice in pronouncing the syllables of a word.
(n.) The part of the foot upon which such a depression falls.
Example Sentences:
(1) Why would you want to boost him?” The president is accused of trying to distract from domestic problems – corruption scandals and an exposé showing he plagiarised parts of his law-school thesis – by attending to Trump.
(2) Data interpretation confirms the well-known thesis that reproductive health protection is not only of a medical and biological but of very wide interdisciplinary interest when the woman is on the brink of the important for her personally and finally for the society as well decision pro and con real pregnancy.
(3) The data favor the thesis that neutralization of BVD virus occurs by a multi-hit mechanism and requires combination of at least two molecules of antibody with each virus.
(4) Clinical material is used to illustrate this thesis.
(5) I went to work at Carville at the invitation of Dr. Kirchheimer, who had seen my Ph.D. thesis.
(6) The striking weakness of Clegg's thesis was what it left out in its attempt to carve out a position for restless party activists as their poll ratings dip (down to 14% according to ICM) as Miliband tones down his own anti-Lib Dem rhetoric to woo them.
(7) The thesis considered was that angiotensin II may have a greater role in the fetus than in the adult since the autonomic nervous system does not develop fully until late in gestation.
(8) My immediate suspicion is that the pupil is taking the same course as the master, though I accept it is a large thesis to hang on beige furnishings.
(9) Doctors who were general practitioners in the period 1973-88 and had written a successful MD or PhD thesis were identified.
(10) A leaked cabinet committee memo in 2010 showed coalition ministers were advised on coming into government that it was wrong "to regard radicalisation in this country as a linear 'conveyor belt' moving from grievance, through radicalisation, to violence … This thesis seems to both misread the radicalisation process and to give undue weight to ideological factors".
(11) The present thesis focuses on the etiology, diagnosis, progression and prevention of dentoalveolar ankylosis.
(12) As previously observed the fraction that escapes depends on the solvent viscosity [Marden, M. C. (1983) Ph.D. Thesis, University of Illinois-Urbana].
(13) Hakim is keen to stress that her thesis is "evidence based" and nothing to do with prejudice or ideology, and finishes her introduction with this rallying cry: "why not champion femininity rather than abolish it?
(14) The results obtained will allow to test experimentally the theoretical predictions made by A. Goldbeter (1973) PhD thesis, Université Libre de Bruxelles, on the distribution of carbamoyl phosphate and the oscillation of its intracellular concentration.
(15) These data support the thesis that cell transport of calcium is accomplished by the attachment of calcium atoms to the cell surface and transport through the plasma membrane bound to either specific carriers or to membrane constituents.
(16) To illustrate his thesis he presents the case history of a man who was fatally affected by the family myth and mystification process.
(17) The present studies were designed to estimate fetal weight on the basis of the thesis that the factors which determine body weight include the fetal bone and the amount of fetal soft tissue, i.e., fetal corpulence.
(18) We describe an approach that is based on the thesis that dermatologists can and often should treat such patients.
(19) For that reason the electron microscope method with an optically higher resolution was chosen for this thesis.
(20) Both polyribosomes and 70S ribosomes that were isolated on sucrose density gra dients and tested separately in cell-free systems were capable of protein syn thesis; however, polyribosomes formed more protein per unit of RNA than monosomes did.